Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

This morning, I find myself wishing we got #Ubuntu #GNOME back. Not even as an official flavour, so it can stay away from Snaps and deliver Flatpaks out of the box alongside a vanilla GNOME experience.

I remember it fondly.

I like #Fedora, but there's something about Ubuntu that just *works* on my hardware.

Head of Twitter Blue, Esther Crawford, was just fired from Twitter. This is her first tweet since the news broke.

I’m not jeering or mocking her.

But her “optimism” was a mistake, and her hard work was pointless. Sounds harsh, I know.

Elon Musk has no loyalty to anyone but himself. And his deadlines were arbitrary.

Getting laid off is tough but this is a learning moment.

I hope Esther spends time with her her children, and treasures those moments with family.

https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1630040219880914945?s=20

"We don't do that here" is one of the best community management phrases and it's even more powerful when used by a fellow community member.

There's a special hell for these folks: https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healthcare-sharing-ministries-obamacare

Dilbert "tribute."

#Donebert #RacistDilbert

Big Journalism bans racist cartoonist from its own media but continues to support an extremist who defends him racism. Media hypocrisy has no upper boundary when it comes to confronting -- that is, not confronting -- what it means to stay on Twitter.

Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant

“Is there nothing anybody would say that would cause you to cease your association with them? If so, then what you are is not a proponent of free speech, but lazy amorality.“
This piece is so good.
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

My dream is that antiracists learn to practice as much solidarity as racists do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/elon-musk-scott-adams-dilbert-racist/

Musk wades in to the Dilbert guy fiasco, identifies the real racists as “the media”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/elon-musk-scott-adams-dilbert-racist/

“The billionaire’s comments continue a pattern of Musk expressing more concern about the ‘free speech’ of people who make racist or antisemitic comments than about the comments themselves.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/elon-musk-scott-adams-dilbert-racist/

With great power comes great electric bills.

I've been asked what Mastodon client I use on my Android phone. It's the web app's mobile view in Firefox.

When I have the choice, I ALWAYS prefer the mobile-web version even if an app has more functionality. Most apps spy on their users, and my mobile browser is pretty well locked down to prevent that.

Infosys founder slams working from home, side hustles, as slowing India's growth https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/27/asia_tech_news_roundup/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.fdn.fr/TheRegister/status/1629995388903063553

I’m proud of my partner @AndrewsMcMeel Syndication for this principled action.

A clarification about the "Linux on Apple Silicon" story

https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1629867285379960833

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1629867285379960833

#linux #unix

That two distinct people thought this "gotcha apologetic" was clever is hard for me to accept. How can anybody be such a shallow thinker??
#atheism #humanism #philosophy #humanism #criticalThinking

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"

Yes. Life is about more than constant and meaningless toil for 40-50 years and a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell, where no amount working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in YOUR resume?

“…”

Errr, freelancing. I was freelancing.

Weeks after Ohio rail derailment, President Biden has no plans to visit https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-26/biden-east-palestine-railroad-derailment (Me: I have had it with crap headlines... The Mayor asked him not to visit... plenty of working agency heads have since... Mayor said a Presidential visit is not needed... they are getting the help they need!)

From the bird site 😂🤣😂